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Impressive meteor video from Canada

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  1. toggie

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  2. RacerX_GTO

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    This is the first time I've seen the video, VERY COOL!
     
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    The sky is falling!


    ...off I go to find the landing site ;).....You know how much I can get for that on eBay!
     
  5. niklas

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    Wow that's amazing! I wasn't even aware of this until now. Thanks for posting!
     
  6. venusone

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    I want a piece of it for my mantle! Alway wanted to find a meteor. Yeah, Star Trek fan here.
     
  7. toggie

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    Here is part of the write-up on that web link about the meteor (just in case that link stops working some day):

    Canada Meteor Video:

    A fireball that lit up western Canadian skies on the night of November 20, 2008, was captured on video by several cameras throughout the region. One of the most brilliant videos was taken by a police car's dashcam in Edmonton. In the video, the blindingly white fireball passes behind a series of clouds before exploding in the atmosphere.

    Fast Facts:

    Local time of meteor flash: 5:26 p.m.
    One video of meteor was captured by a police dashcam.
    Fireball may never have landed.
    Believed to be no bigger than a grapefruit.
    Believed to be a "bolide" due to the speed with which it traveled and the brighness of the light it created.
    Traveled approximately 60km per second.
    Entered atmosphere at approximately 400,000 feet above Earth.

    Quotes:

    "There's a very good chance it was what we call a bolide, which is a meteorite crossing the sky at extremely quick velocity -- very, very fast -- and as it hits the atmosphere at about 400,000 feet, travelling at about 60 kilometres per second, this is the incredible light show that it creates."—Randy Atwood, space educator.

    "It looked like a lighting bolt, the most intense lighting bolt you've ever seen, and maybe the size of three...It seemed the most intense areas where it was being reported was in the west-central part of Saskatchewan and the east-central part of Alberta, with the most intense reports coming in from Melfort, Saskatchewan and Lloydminster...and right at Red Pheasant First Nation."—Saskatoon reporter Mike Ciona.
     
  8. djui5

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    That wasn't a meteor, it was a Russian rocket :D
     

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